Semiautomated trash collection is coming

City households to receive 65-gallon carts next week

11:00 PM,
Mar. 26, 2013

Written by

Jane Prendergast

Cincinnati households will start getting 65-gallon trash carts next week, the first step in moving the whole city to a semiautomated trash collection system to save money on landfill fees and workers' compensation costs.

Delivery of the approximately 90,000 carts will start April 3 and continue through summer. Trash workers no longer will lift the garbage into trucks, but instead roll the carts to the truck, which has hydraulic flippers that flip the carts up and dump the trash into the truck.

Households will get only one cart, which drew some concern from Councilman Chris Seelbach, who ...